Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers. All Rights Reserved.
| published weekly. | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1896. | five cents a copy. |
| vol. xvii.—no. 851. | two dollars a year. |
THE LITTLE CORPORALS.
BY JULIANA CONOVER.
There was a suspicious sniffle, then a series of gulps, and then theletters grew blurred and indistinct, and even hard winking would notkeep the tears back; to Charlie's mortification they actually splasheddown on the page before him.
Herr Dr. Hartmann looked up, peering through his glasses at the boy.
"What dost thou read?" he asked, kindly. "It is not, I hope, bad newsfrom the home?"
"No," muttered Charlie, blowing his nose hard; "it's—a hockey story."
"Ach, du liebe
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